Are we using psychedelic plants, or are they using us?

Welcome to Tuesday Brunch, our weekly round-up of news and links from around the net. The first bit is free, the rest is for paid subscribers only. NB we have a free online psychedelic safety seminar happening this Thursday. You can sign up here. I recently saw this on one of reddit’s psychedelics pages: Something similar actually happened to me on an ayahuasca retreat in 2017. During one of the ceremonies, ‘the medicine’ appeared before me as a cartoon snake, and it said to me I could become an ayahuasca ‘influencer’, helping to ‘spread the word’. It even held out a microphone to me (somehow, the cartoon snake could hold a microphone). I was naturally flattered, but now I wonder…are the plants / plant-spirits supporting our spiritual growth, or using us as marketing bots? Over in Oregon, legal psilocybin therapy has begun this month, with clients taking a trip at Epic Healing Eugene, the first psilocybin center to open. Cathy Jones - the first legal psychedelic healer in the western w

Welcome to Tuesday Brunch, our weekly round-up of news and links from around the net. The first bit is free, the rest is for paid subscribers only. NB we have a free online psychedelic safety seminar happening this Thursday. You can sign up here. I recently saw this on one of reddit’s psychedelics pages: Something similar actually happened to me on an ayahuasca retreat in 2017. During one of the ceremonies, ‘the medicine’ appeared before me as a cartoon snake, and it said to me I could become an ayahuasca ‘influencer’, helping to ‘spread the word’. It even held out a microphone to me (somehow,